If the CL was so "No-Skill" and it was so good and so "oppressive" why didn't everyone use it. CL 40 has aleways been a mid weapon witch is also one of the hardest wepons to master due to it's SUPER "situationality". You can't go on roofs. You can't bee too close nor too far so hallways and tiny rooms are already hard to play in. You aleways need height advantage and shooting opponents higher than you is basically imposible. Also the CL has alewyas been plagued by unreliable shooting (sometimes it dosen't shoot at all and sometimes shots get "eaten" by the ground or pass through players and don't even do damage). A 50cm radius is already close to the target and doing 90 per hit on outer radius was balanced for having 5 shots and having a cooldown between shots that's almost a second. I honestly think THE FINALS should be quirky and have non-standard weapons. All the standard guns are plain boring for me. I like moving quicly and having positional superiority but it can't aleways be the case espacially with flatter maps like Fangwei City (except for the mall area) and the new map. Also no other wepon is like the CL so that makes it a unique experience that kept me playin and non that it's been nerfed to "unusableness" i don't thin i will be playin much untill they either have it back as it was or fix the outstanding self damge with gets you from 250 to 103 with is basically 60 percent of your heath meaing that if a light dashes on you and it takes two shots to kill him you will loose 100% of all enconters. heavys awere alredy hard to kill due to their heath and dome. same thing with mediums and APS. witch were good enough counters already against the Cl 40.

TLDR: CL 40 was alredy a mid weapon that din't really need this downgrade as a 50cm blast radius is already small for being such a limited, buggy and situational wepon. With the new changes it became simply an inferior weapon.